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The thing is, my fantasies about being a parent always involved fighting for my unpopular child, doing for her what my own parents couldn't do for me when I was a girl. I am so ready to be that little girl's mother.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: About Always Am Being Child Doing Fantasies Fighting Girl Her Involved Little Me Mother My Own Own Parent Parents Ready Thing Unpopular I Am

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It's hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house, by your children. If you're lucky, your kids will help you make that distinction.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Being Childhood Childhoods Children Distinction Emotional Hard Help House Kids Legacy Lived Lucky Make Out Remembered Separate Will You Your

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Personally, I think four is the perfect number of children for our particular family. Four is enough to create the frenzied cacophony that my husband and I find so joyful.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Children Create Enough Family Find Four Husband Joyful Number Our Particular Perfect Personally Think I Think

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I tell myself that after four children my belly is already so stretched and flabby that I have to do origami to get my pants buttoned. One more pregnancy and I'd be doomed to elastic waists for the rest of my life.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: After Belly Children Doomed Elastic Flabby Four Get Life More My Life Myself Pants Pregnancy Rest Stretched Tell

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When the babies were very young, I found it difficult to write. I told myself each time that it would be different, I was used to it now, but with every child, for the first four months, I would accomplish nothing.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Accomplish Babies Be Different Child Different Difficult Each Each Time Every First Found Four Months Myself Nothing Now Time Used Very Were Would Write Young

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I had a second trimester abortion. I was pregnant with a much-wanted child who was diagnosed with a genetic abnormality. I made a choice to terminate the pregnancy. It was my third pregnancy, and I was very obviously showing. More important, I could feel the baby move.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Abortion Baby Child Choice Could Diagnosed Feel Genetic Had Important Made More Move Obviously Pregnancy Pregnant Second Showing Terminate Third Very Who

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I did not want to raise a genetically compromised child. I did not want my children to have to contend with the massive diversion of parental attention, and the consequences of being compelled to care for their brother after I died. I wanted a genetically perfect baby, and because that was something I could control, I chose to end his life.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: After Attention Baby Because Being Brother Care Child Children Chose Compelled Compromised Consequences Contend Control Could Did Died Diversion End Genetically His Life Massive Parental Perfect Raise Something Want Wanted

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Everyone knows now how early a fetus becomes a baby. Women who have been pregnant have seen their babies on ultrasounds. They know that there is a terrible truth to those horrific pictures the anti-choice fanatics hold up in front of abortion clinics.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Abortion Babies Baby Becomes Been Clinics Early Everyone Fanatics Fetus Front Hold Horrific How Know Knows Now Pictures Pregnant Seen Terrible Those Truth Up Who Women

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Listen to the pregnant woman. Value her. She values the life growing inside her. Listen to the pregnant woman, and you cannot help but defend her right to abortion.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Abortion Cannot Defend Growing Help Her Inside Life Listen Pregnant Right She Value Values Woman You

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How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with them? I want a gay son. People laugh, but they assume I'm kidding. I'm not.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Assume Gay How Intimate Kidding Laugh Maintain Many Men Mothers People Relationships Shop Son Straight Them Want

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Biography

Nationality: Israeli

Type: Novelist

Born: December 11th, 1964

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